Basket of Conduct 32

Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.

1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter With Yudhañjaya
3. The Perfection of Truth (6th)
4. Sutasoma’s Conduct
5. “Then again when I was
6. Sutasoma, Lord of the Earth,
7. captured by a cannibal
8. I remembered my promise to a brahmin.
9. A hundred aristocrat warriors
10. he strung up by their hands .
11. Having drained their blood,
12. he brought me for sacrifice.
13. The cannibal asked me,
14. ‘What do you wish for—release?
15. I shall act as you think,
16. so long as you will return.’
17. I promised him that I
18. would return at dawn.
19. I went to the delightful city
20. and then renounced kingship.
21. Recollecting the true Dhamma,
22. fostered by former Victors,
23. I gave money to the brahmin,
24. and returned to the cannibal.
25. I had no doubt
26. that he was going to kill me.
27. Protecting my truthful speech,
28. I went to give up my life.
29. There is no-one to equal my truthfulness:
30. this is my perfection of truth.”